One-of-a-kind map from Battle at Goliad to be offered at Heritage Auctions
Fort Defiance: 1836 Joseph Chadwick Map of Col. James Fannin s Defenses at the Historic Site of the Battle of Goliad.
DALLAS, TX
.- The only known map of Col. James Fannin s troops at the Battle of Goliad and a pair of Delft tobacco jars given to Franklin Delano Roosevelt could bring $100,000 each in Heritage Auctions Americana & Political Auction Feb. 27-28.
One of the earliest and most important contemporary printed records of the Texas Revolution, unseen since 1966, also could reach six figures. Fort Defiance: 1836 Joseph Chadwick Map of Col. James Fannin s Defenses at the Historic Site of the Battle of Goliad (estimate: $100,000+) was drawn by Fannin s adjutant, Joseph Chadwick and sent to Chadwick s mother shortly before the pair died. The story of the Texas Revolution became the stuff of legend, and the tragic massacre of Col. Fannin and some 400 of his men at Goliad was, along with the fall of th